EU REACH regulations are the most ambitious chemical policy change in history. The regulations create new responsibilities up and down the semiconductor manufacturing supply chain, from substrates to equipment to devices.

For the past year, SEMI has been collaborating with industry partners in the exchange of information across the semiconductor industry supply chain for REACH compliance and conformance. In order to extend this information sharing to a broader range of interested parties, SEMI, SESHA, ESIA, and ISMI are co-sponsoring a set of REACH-related informational webcasts.

The first of these, scheduled for Monday, August 11, will focus on the logistics of REACH pre-registration (which began on June 1 and continues through November 30, 2008). This ninety (90) minute webcast will be broadcast live from the newly created European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) headquarters in Helsinki, Finland. Webcast speakers will include:

Catherine Cornu – European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)

Andreas Uphoff – European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)

Moderators will include:

Fiona Lyons (Intel) – ESIA

Sanjay Baliga – SEMI

Laurie Beu – ISMI

Ms. Cornu will discuss the logistics of pre-registration, including: who can pre-register (EU legal entities / only reps); what needs to be pre-registered by when; and what data is needed to pre-register. Mr. Uphoff will demonstrate two on-line software tools for pre-registering chemicals, IUCLID5 and REACH-IT. The presentation and demo will be followed by a question and answer session. Presentation files are located below:

This webcast is presented free of charge and will be extremely valuable to all semiconductor industry members and suppliers concerned with regulatory compliance for substances produced in, or imported directly or indirectly into the European Union.

Webcast attendees do NOT need to pre-register for the webcast. In fact, pre-registration for the webcast is not available. Instead, please click on the link below on Monday, August 11 and you will be connected to the webcast.

The webcast has a limit of one hundred-fifty (150) participants, so we urge you to access the webcast at least 15 minutes before the webcast is scheduled to begin.

The webcast will include video and audio portions. The audio will require that you have working computer speakers hooked up. If you are not able to access the audio portion of the webcast using computer speakers, you can also dial in using a standard toll free telephone number below.

Webcast attendees who are located near San Jose (California, USA) are invited to view the webcast at the SEMI office in San Jose (3081 Zanker Road, San Jose, CA, 95125, USA). When you arrive, please sign in and ask the receptionist to guide you to the Board Room.

For those not available on August 11, the webcast will be recorded and made available on the internet for playback at your convenience. The recording will be available by accessing by clicking below:

If you have specific questions about REACH pre-registration (including software application concerns) that you would like the ECHA speakers to address, please forward them to Sanjay Baliga at sbaliga@semi.org as soon as possible. Written questions submitted via the webcast interface during the presentations may also be answered.